exa v0.5.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-04-11 // about 7 years ago
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    ➕ Additions

    • ➕ Add --colo[u]r option to toggle colours on and off (f92459d)
    • ➕ Add case-insensitive sorting with --Name and --Ext (note the caps) (8805ce9, 3e9616c)
    • Recognise pipes, devices, and sockets on systems where they’re avaliable (a9bb275)
    • ➕ Add ability to ignore globs (9559629)
    • ➕ Add option to colour file sizes on a scale (0ffb331, 86065f8)

    🔄 Changes

    • 👌 Improved help text (edeec0f, b35927f, 7e15e0d)
    • 👉 Use the time zone data present on the system, rather than the perpetually-outdated versions compiled with exa (ee4c09d)
    • 🖨 Print files’ paths if they had paths when passed in as arguments (9b87ef1)
    • Highlight cryptographic file types (45c93b1)
    • Error messages now go to stderr (8d25719)
    • 🖨 Stop printing a header for zero files (a7e3456)
    • The usual amount of internal restructuring.
    • ⬆️ Lots and lots of upgrades to newer Rust versions.

    🛠 Fixes

    • 👍 Allow Details view to be used, even if the terminal has no width (1756a0a)
    • 🛠 Compilation fixes for ARM (734c508)
    • 🛠 Compilation fixes for FreeBSD (b9eb364)
    • 🛠 Fix bug where files were shown to not have extended attributes (4c32663)
    • 🛠 Fix bug where files weren’t being sorted correctly in Details view (f6c5c89)
    • 🛠 Fix bug where the directory name above a list of files was not printed (f35d28d)

    Contributors

    Thanks to skade, petevine, jbeich, tomassedovic, hoodie, lindenk, gemmarx, spk, Stebalien, and neosilky for contributing!